The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER


WASHINGTON. ID. G.. August 49, 1887.
Ex-Congressman Brady, one of the
Republican leaders of Virginia, was in
the Capital day or two since, and be.
ing at skies and sevens with little Billy
Malone, the Republican boss of that
State, Mr.. Brady gently submitted to
an interview in which he gives some
interesting information regarding the
political situation in the Old Dominion.
He says that Malone in his mad de-
sire to make every other interest sub
servient to his ambition to return to
the United States Senate, has alienated
all of his old lieutenants, including
such men as Senator Riddleberger, Ex-
Governor Cameron and two of the Re-
publican Congressman elect, 80 that
only listless apathy and egregious
blunders on the part of Democrats can
secure Mahohe's return to power from
The Mother of Presidents.
That piece of monumental folly and
pet Republican measure, the Blair
Educational Bill, has been sat upon in
the house of its friends, or what was
supposed to be such, for the Commit
tee on Federal Affairs in the New
Hampshire House OF Representatives,
by vote of seven to three, has laid
on the table resolutions endorsing the |
bill. And this from cranky Senator
Blairs own State and partyl "That |
was the most unkindest cut of all"-l
worse by far than the Democrats could |
give.
Secretary Fairchild, a few days
since, dismissed pair of Republican
clerks for consuming portion of their
valuable time during office hours in
abusing the Democratic party, one of
them being a brother of the BRASS
throated g. A. r. howler, Gen. Gros-
venor, Congressman from Ohio. The
Secretary we'll says that he thinks it
too good in the Administration to keep
Republicans in their places, but that
indecent criticism of the Dem 1cracy
should not be permitted. The senti-
ment of the able and popular young
Secretary of the Treasury will find
ready echo in the hearts of thousands
of Democrats, with the wish that there
were more Fairchilds in the Cabinet.
Secretary Whitney is pushing for
ward with the earnes tness and enthu-
siasm characteristic of him, his efforts
to re-habilitate the American NAVY,
having just awarded the contract for
the building of two gunboats and three
cruisers, after the most approved de-
signs, and with such iron-clad test as
to speed end capacity that full CON-
pliance with these conditions is guaran
teed. Another commendable action of
the Secretary is his continued refusal
to furnish any funds for the repair of
rotten hulks like the Monocracy that
were inherited from the late Republi-
eau regime.
Two Republican chief clerks of the
Interior Department have resigned dur
ing the present Admnistration-the
successor of the last one not yet having
been chosen. trust Secretary Lamar
will be able to find some good and
worthy Democrat for the position. 1t
is fact, perhaps not generally known,
that with single exception, every
chief clerk of Department under
President Cleyeland's Administration
is a hold-over Republican, although
those places are not under civil-service
rules. Why this is thus, l have, as
yet, been unable to discover, but, it
"oyercomes me like summer cloud"
+. In the Washington Police Court the
preliminary trial of the Crawford for
nication case, which / have heretofore
still drags its slow length
along like Shiny serpent, owing to
the fact that 1t must give way each
day to the regular routine of cases.
There was most exciting scene in this
case one of the defendants
counsel told the Judge that the United
States District Attorney had said to
the two associate counsel for the de-
Tense, that the Judge would decide the
case in the Governments favor, re-
gardless alike of argument and evil
dence-that, in fact, he had pre- Judged
the case This statement the Judge
had reduced to writing, and as the ven
cradle Jurist read the charge in open
Court, his anger and passion were so
that he shook like an
aspen leaf, as he denounced the arraign-
ment "as false aspersion upon my
character" TLen, the District Attor-
ney aud the opposing counsel had an
unseemly wrangle-the former affirm
ing and the latter denying. / fully
agree with one Of the defendants law
yers, who, in towering rage, declared
that the way the case was being tried
was "a disgrace and an outrage on all